"Red Crabs of Christmas Island"

Documentary, 27 minutes
In 1996 Ralf Kiefner made a 27-minute documentary for the german
TV VOX about the biggest mass migration on land. Once a year, at
the beginning of the rainy season, a spectacular migration takes
place on Christmas Island (Australia). Millions of bright red land
crabs leave the rain forest moving like an endless stream, heading
to the island´s beaches. The entire island appears to be
covered with migrating red crabs during this time, it seems to
be completely in "crabs hands". These "red robots"
are literally everywhere. They are marching across fields, roads,
gardens, terraces, yards and even the golf-course seems to be like
"painted" in red.

Since 1996 the documentary Red Crabs of Christmas Island is one
of the most successful documentaries on VOX-TV and therefore was
repeated every year.